Axel Rauschmayer gives a tour of ECMAScript 6, the next version of the JavaScript language standard. Its specification will be finished by the end of 2014, but you can already use many parts of it today (how is explained in the talk).

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Introduction to Hoodie—
Slides plus notes of a presentation held at HH.js on June 17. The official description of Hoodie is: “an architecture for frontend-only web apps”. That is, you can focus on implementing the frontend of a web application, Hoodie provides the backend as a service.

1.21 Gigawatts: Chrome Apps with AngularJS and Node—
Aaron Frost and Dave Geddes gave perhaps Fluent's most entertaining talk which involved building Chrome apps with AngularJS and the Web Speech API to electrocute people (including Nicholas C Zakas) when they said the wrong thing.

Later.js: Working with Recurring Schedules—
In Later.js terminology, a recurring schedule is a series of occurrences (points in time). The library lets you manipulate, parse and serialize schedules. You can also use them to trigger the execution of code. Later.js works on Node.js and in browsers.

Announcing Angular Kendo UI—
A complete set of directives for every widget in Kendo UI’s Web and DataViz suites. The goal was to provide deep integration with AngularJS while keeping Kendo UI's declarative API.

NeDB: Embedded Datastore for Node.js—
NeDB is pure JavaScript, with no dependencies on native code. It provides a clean and easy way of storing data, when you don’t need a large-scale database. Think SQLite for Node.js. You can use NeDB as a persistent data store or in-memory only.

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Remy Sharp is running a 'Node crash course' on July 19 in Brighton (UK). He promises to have lots of hands on learning and has a special 25% discount for us using code JSWEEKLY. No money changing hands here, Remy's (still) just a cool guy :-)